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Multifaceted Serling to talk at noon today
Rod Serling, internationally-known television writer, producer and narrator, will speak at noon today in Bovard Auditorium on the Great Issues Forum. Serling's talk will be "The View from the Middle and Middle Age.”
By RODGER KEE
Dan Gingold, director, and Joe Saltzman, producer, were haggling over minor bits and pieces of film editing, continuity and music. Gingold said he just couldn’t see the Beaties’ “Hard Day’s Night” dubbed in over one of the film strips.
"That’s really a great song, and I love the way it ends, but it just doesn’t get it with that video segment,” Gingold said.
Saltzman was expressing mild disagreement, but after a week of long hours spent in trying to "manufacture” new ideas for this particular half hour, Saltzman’s idea-manufacturing center was pretty well worn out.
"We had an especially difficult time with this segment,” said Saltzman, after Gingold shooed him out of the control room before the final taping session. “I’m glad to see this thing coming to an end—we’ve only got two more shows to go—you just can’t get things together the way you want to when you have to work so fast.”
If there was a mild air of dissension—even confusion—in the control room, the star of KNXT’s weekend mini-documentary series seemed to be scarcely aware of it.
Rod Serling—writer, producer, director, narrator—was running through the script for the first time. He was making those tiny, almost imperceptable adjustments to emphasize this word or that phrase. Simultaneously, or so it seemed, he was reading
his script and a teleprompter, watching the stage manager’s cut signals, and sharing the stage crew’s amusement at film strips none of them had seen before.
It was only 9:30 a.m. when the first rehearsal was over.
“I like to tape early in the morning like this,” Serling said. "It leaves most of the rest of the day for other things.”
Despite this, Serling drained his coffee cup quickly and rubbed his eyes between takes. With a director’s ten-second signal, he reassumed his right-hand-up-holding-the-cigarette-position and his multilateral attentiveness to the people and things around him.
The second rehearsal went much faster; the director and his crew had made timing adjustments to tighten-up the film-live-format in the fifteen minute break between takes.
Serling, however, had his own approach to the script all worked out during the first rehearsal. His second run differed little from the first one.
No one said “boo” to his performance.
“Rod is so good,” said Saltzman. "We don’t even think about what he’ll do, because we know he’ll do it well.”
Nate Kaplan, who writes "Rod Serling’s Wonderful World of ... along with Jere Witter, was in the control room.
“He has made only one change in the eleven scripts I’ve given him,” said Kaplan. Kaplan's remark brought a response from the other crewmembers. The conscensus was that they would have a hard time thinking of anybody else who was so easy to work with.
Serling said he was looking forward to wrapping-up the series in the next three weeks.
“I just don’t think I’m able to give the show enough,” he said. “I don’t see myself as a narrator; I’d much rather be writing. I’ve got reservations about being on camera for a whole half-hour.”
Kaplan thought it was the perfectionist in Serling that was partly back of his desire to leave the series.
“It’s too hard for us to produce a great show every single (Continued on page 3)
ROD SERLING
University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LXI, NO. 93
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1970
Committee stands firm on constitution revision
By ANDY MILLER Editor
The Constitutional Review Committee reiterated its support of its version of the revised ASSC Constitution yesterday— just in time for the scheduled ASSC Executive Council meeting today.
“The Constitutional Review Committee stands behind the decisions it had made during the four months of deliberation.” Donna DeDiemar, the committee’s chairman, said yesterday.
Miss DeDiemar emphasized that the committee was not recommending to the executive council any action on an additional constitutional election. “That’s the council’s decision,” Miss DeDiemar said. “They’ll have to decide whether to put this constitution up for a vcte to the students — whether they should try to get it ratified before the general student body elections.”
Currently, the student body elections are scheduled for April 7 and 8, with the runoffs set for April 14. If the executive council is to decide that a second constitutional election should be held, it would probably have to decide today since there is only a little time left to squeeze in a constitutional election. ASSC officers must assume their duties May 1.
The revised constitution from the review committee would change the qualification to hold the top three ASSC offices, and would change the duties of the two vice-presidents. Consequently, proponents of these provisions feel that the new constitution should be ratified before the general student body election.
One of the provisions would allow sophomores to be ASSC president, vice-president for student affairs, and vice-president for academic affairs.
A second provision would change the duties of the two vice-presidents to coincide with the duties of the vice-presidential structure in the administra-
tion. For example, the vice-president for student affairs would coordinate the student members of university committees which fall under that administrative division.
The Constitutional Review Committee’s action yesterday comes in the aftermath of a series of political maneuvers which finally resulted in the defeat of a proposed constitution March 11 by a 755-567 vote. The same constitution
which the review committee endorsed again yesterday was amended by the executive council to add a preamble and three minority representatives.
“The revised constitution is a method of making student government a little more viable next year,” Miss DeDiemar said. “There are a lot of things that need to be reworked — but it would take a lot more time to consider those ideas.”
MECHA questions Chicano enrollment
A group of Mexican-American students met with Conrad Wedberg, dean of admissions, yesterday and presented a series of questions to him concerning the enrollment and admission of Mexi-can-American students.
The meeting was an attempt by MECHA (formerly United Mexican-American Students) and Mesa Directiva (a group of undergraduate, law and graduate students) to get the exact facts concerning Mexican-Americans at USC on which they will base scholarship and admission demands to the administration.
“We’re just proving to the student body that we’re basing our actions on our honest attempts to find the facts,” said Miguel de la Pena, a spokesman for the group.
He said that if the admissions office did not answer their questions, MECHA would release the information that it has in its files.
In a probe address to Paul Bloland, vice-president for student and alumni affairs; Dean Wedberg; William Hall, registrar; and Mark Frazin, assistant registrar; MECHA and Mesa Directiva asked the following:
1) How many Mexican-American (Chicano) students are presently at USC?
a) Percentage of the student body.
b) Specific number of Mexican-Americans (Chicanos).
2) How many Mexican-American (Chicano) students apply to USC in the academic year?
How many Mexican-American (Chicano) students are accepted yearly?
3) How many applicants in the past year have been recommended by UMAS? From these, how many have been admitted?
4) How many Chicano transfer students have applied? From these, how many have been accepted?
A statement, drafted by Alfonso Baez, junior with an undeclared major, said that unless the questions were answered within the next ten days, MECHA and the Mesa Directiva chapters of USC would release to the press, community organizations and the student body information presently available in the MECHA files concerning Chicano enrollment.
De la Pena said that the group hopes to meet with President Norman Topping to present certain demands that have been drawn up.
Antidraft Week protests scheduled
By WENDY GOTCH
President Nixon promised last October to end compulsory service in the armed forces as soon as Vietnamization is completed.
But because “the draft stili continues, and Vietnam seems destined to remain an American war indefinitely,” the Peace Action Council has designated March 16-22 as National Antidraft Week
Rallies, discussions and petitions are the focal points of the week’s activities, designed to emphasize friendly and legal harassment.
lim Korsen and Jeff Fields are in charge of the USC Vietnam Moratorium Committee.
Picketing and sit-ins will take place at the Los Angeles Induction Center on Wednesday at 7 a.m. in a show of nonviolent civil disobedience.
Koren said Moratorium workers will talk to people getting off downtown buses. “The purpose is to educate them. We found that very few people really know their rights, and naturally the draft
boards love that,” he said.
Pershing Square will be the scene of a rally at 11 a.m. Wednesday. People will gather to plan independent action for the following day.
Picketing of local selective service boards will be Thursday’s activities. Because the members of the Moratorium feel picketing has only limited effectiveness, they will use friendly harassment as well, to show dissatisfaction with the system.
On the ‘ Pay a Visit to Your Draft Board Day,” men will go in and ask to see their files. By law, a clerk has to explain everything in a person’s file upon his request.
Koren said when several hundred requests are made in a single day, the system will definitely be affected.
Another technique for fouling up the system is to mail in Bibles, letters, stone tablets and the like, to the draft board, Korsen said. Law requires that everything sent in must be included in the file.
Senate hearings on the draft will begin
March 26. There is a strong possibility that student deferments will be abolished as a result of Senate recommendations, a Moratorium release indicated. Therefore, peace groups across the nation have joined to sponsor a “We Won’t Go” petition.
It reads: “If ordered for induction, we, the undersigned, will refuse. We will not serve in the military as long as the war in Vietnam continues.”
Several hundred signatures have been obtained at USC, which Korsen said is “quite a lot, considering that no one was resisting the draft here a few years ago.” About 25,000 signatures are expected nationwide. The petitions will be presented to the Senate subcommittee, and hopefully will exert some influence, Korsen said.
Last year, 250 student body presidents signed a “We Won’t Go’’ petition and received extensive press coverage. The peace groups hope this year’s effort will be as successful.
Signing or circulating the petition is in no way illegal, and cannot be punished
by reclassification. Only refusing induction is against the law.
Because of that, Korsen said he was amazed at the number of people who claim to be committed to ending the draft, yet refused to sign the petition stating their intentions.
“We’re not just coming out against the draft by publishing a Free Trojan like YAF—we’re actually laying ourselves on the line,” he said.
Saturday will be “Meet Your Draft Board Members” day. Since lists of addresses are public information, the students will travel to the members’ homes and discuss their opinions.
Simliar activities in Baltimore caused three board members to reassess their positions and resign, he said.
Korsen emphasized the friendly atli tude with which this activity will be carried out.
Koren said those wishing to join the Moratorium may leave their names and addresses in Room 102 of the Religious Center.

Multifaceted Serling to talk at noon today
Rod Serling, internationally-known television writer, producer and narrator, will speak at noon today in Bovard Auditorium on the Great Issues Forum. Serling's talk will be "The View from the Middle and Middle Age.”
By RODGER KEE
Dan Gingold, director, and Joe Saltzman, producer, were haggling over minor bits and pieces of film editing, continuity and music. Gingold said he just couldn’t see the Beaties’ “Hard Day’s Night” dubbed in over one of the film strips.
"That’s really a great song, and I love the way it ends, but it just doesn’t get it with that video segment,” Gingold said.
Saltzman was expressing mild disagreement, but after a week of long hours spent in trying to "manufacture” new ideas for this particular half hour, Saltzman’s idea-manufacturing center was pretty well worn out.
"We had an especially difficult time with this segment,” said Saltzman, after Gingold shooed him out of the control room before the final taping session. “I’m glad to see this thing coming to an end—we’ve only got two more shows to go—you just can’t get things together the way you want to when you have to work so fast.”
If there was a mild air of dissension—even confusion—in the control room, the star of KNXT’s weekend mini-documentary series seemed to be scarcely aware of it.
Rod Serling—writer, producer, director, narrator—was running through the script for the first time. He was making those tiny, almost imperceptable adjustments to emphasize this word or that phrase. Simultaneously, or so it seemed, he was reading
his script and a teleprompter, watching the stage manager’s cut signals, and sharing the stage crew’s amusement at film strips none of them had seen before.
It was only 9:30 a.m. when the first rehearsal was over.
“I like to tape early in the morning like this,” Serling said. "It leaves most of the rest of the day for other things.”
Despite this, Serling drained his coffee cup quickly and rubbed his eyes between takes. With a director’s ten-second signal, he reassumed his right-hand-up-holding-the-cigarette-position and his multilateral attentiveness to the people and things around him.
The second rehearsal went much faster; the director and his crew had made timing adjustments to tighten-up the film-live-format in the fifteen minute break between takes.
Serling, however, had his own approach to the script all worked out during the first rehearsal. His second run differed little from the first one.
No one said “boo” to his performance.
“Rod is so good,” said Saltzman. "We don’t even think about what he’ll do, because we know he’ll do it well.”
Nate Kaplan, who writes "Rod Serling’s Wonderful World of ... along with Jere Witter, was in the control room.
“He has made only one change in the eleven scripts I’ve given him,” said Kaplan. Kaplan's remark brought a response from the other crewmembers. The conscensus was that they would have a hard time thinking of anybody else who was so easy to work with.
Serling said he was looking forward to wrapping-up the series in the next three weeks.
“I just don’t think I’m able to give the show enough,” he said. “I don’t see myself as a narrator; I’d much rather be writing. I’ve got reservations about being on camera for a whole half-hour.”
Kaplan thought it was the perfectionist in Serling that was partly back of his desire to leave the series.
“It’s too hard for us to produce a great show every single (Continued on page 3)
ROD SERLING
University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LXI, NO. 93
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1970
Committee stands firm on constitution revision
By ANDY MILLER Editor
The Constitutional Review Committee reiterated its support of its version of the revised ASSC Constitution yesterday— just in time for the scheduled ASSC Executive Council meeting today.
“The Constitutional Review Committee stands behind the decisions it had made during the four months of deliberation.” Donna DeDiemar, the committee’s chairman, said yesterday.
Miss DeDiemar emphasized that the committee was not recommending to the executive council any action on an additional constitutional election. “That’s the council’s decision,” Miss DeDiemar said. “They’ll have to decide whether to put this constitution up for a vcte to the students — whether they should try to get it ratified before the general student body elections.”
Currently, the student body elections are scheduled for April 7 and 8, with the runoffs set for April 14. If the executive council is to decide that a second constitutional election should be held, it would probably have to decide today since there is only a little time left to squeeze in a constitutional election. ASSC officers must assume their duties May 1.
The revised constitution from the review committee would change the qualification to hold the top three ASSC offices, and would change the duties of the two vice-presidents. Consequently, proponents of these provisions feel that the new constitution should be ratified before the general student body election.
One of the provisions would allow sophomores to be ASSC president, vice-president for student affairs, and vice-president for academic affairs.
A second provision would change the duties of the two vice-presidents to coincide with the duties of the vice-presidential structure in the administra-
tion. For example, the vice-president for student affairs would coordinate the student members of university committees which fall under that administrative division.
The Constitutional Review Committee’s action yesterday comes in the aftermath of a series of political maneuvers which finally resulted in the defeat of a proposed constitution March 11 by a 755-567 vote. The same constitution
which the review committee endorsed again yesterday was amended by the executive council to add a preamble and three minority representatives.
“The revised constitution is a method of making student government a little more viable next year,” Miss DeDiemar said. “There are a lot of things that need to be reworked — but it would take a lot more time to consider those ideas.”
MECHA questions Chicano enrollment
A group of Mexican-American students met with Conrad Wedberg, dean of admissions, yesterday and presented a series of questions to him concerning the enrollment and admission of Mexi-can-American students.
The meeting was an attempt by MECHA (formerly United Mexican-American Students) and Mesa Directiva (a group of undergraduate, law and graduate students) to get the exact facts concerning Mexican-Americans at USC on which they will base scholarship and admission demands to the administration.
“We’re just proving to the student body that we’re basing our actions on our honest attempts to find the facts,” said Miguel de la Pena, a spokesman for the group.
He said that if the admissions office did not answer their questions, MECHA would release the information that it has in its files.
In a probe address to Paul Bloland, vice-president for student and alumni affairs; Dean Wedberg; William Hall, registrar; and Mark Frazin, assistant registrar; MECHA and Mesa Directiva asked the following:
1) How many Mexican-American (Chicano) students are presently at USC?
a) Percentage of the student body.
b) Specific number of Mexican-Americans (Chicanos).
2) How many Mexican-American (Chicano) students apply to USC in the academic year?
How many Mexican-American (Chicano) students are accepted yearly?
3) How many applicants in the past year have been recommended by UMAS? From these, how many have been admitted?
4) How many Chicano transfer students have applied? From these, how many have been accepted?
A statement, drafted by Alfonso Baez, junior with an undeclared major, said that unless the questions were answered within the next ten days, MECHA and the Mesa Directiva chapters of USC would release to the press, community organizations and the student body information presently available in the MECHA files concerning Chicano enrollment.
De la Pena said that the group hopes to meet with President Norman Topping to present certain demands that have been drawn up.
Antidraft Week protests scheduled
By WENDY GOTCH
President Nixon promised last October to end compulsory service in the armed forces as soon as Vietnamization is completed.
But because “the draft stili continues, and Vietnam seems destined to remain an American war indefinitely,” the Peace Action Council has designated March 16-22 as National Antidraft Week
Rallies, discussions and petitions are the focal points of the week’s activities, designed to emphasize friendly and legal harassment.
lim Korsen and Jeff Fields are in charge of the USC Vietnam Moratorium Committee.
Picketing and sit-ins will take place at the Los Angeles Induction Center on Wednesday at 7 a.m. in a show of nonviolent civil disobedience.
Koren said Moratorium workers will talk to people getting off downtown buses. “The purpose is to educate them. We found that very few people really know their rights, and naturally the draft
boards love that,” he said.
Pershing Square will be the scene of a rally at 11 a.m. Wednesday. People will gather to plan independent action for the following day.
Picketing of local selective service boards will be Thursday’s activities. Because the members of the Moratorium feel picketing has only limited effectiveness, they will use friendly harassment as well, to show dissatisfaction with the system.
On the ‘ Pay a Visit to Your Draft Board Day,” men will go in and ask to see their files. By law, a clerk has to explain everything in a person’s file upon his request.
Koren said when several hundred requests are made in a single day, the system will definitely be affected.
Another technique for fouling up the system is to mail in Bibles, letters, stone tablets and the like, to the draft board, Korsen said. Law requires that everything sent in must be included in the file.
Senate hearings on the draft will begin
March 26. There is a strong possibility that student deferments will be abolished as a result of Senate recommendations, a Moratorium release indicated. Therefore, peace groups across the nation have joined to sponsor a “We Won’t Go” petition.
It reads: “If ordered for induction, we, the undersigned, will refuse. We will not serve in the military as long as the war in Vietnam continues.”
Several hundred signatures have been obtained at USC, which Korsen said is “quite a lot, considering that no one was resisting the draft here a few years ago.” About 25,000 signatures are expected nationwide. The petitions will be presented to the Senate subcommittee, and hopefully will exert some influence, Korsen said.
Last year, 250 student body presidents signed a “We Won’t Go’’ petition and received extensive press coverage. The peace groups hope this year’s effort will be as successful.
Signing or circulating the petition is in no way illegal, and cannot be punished
by reclassification. Only refusing induction is against the law.
Because of that, Korsen said he was amazed at the number of people who claim to be committed to ending the draft, yet refused to sign the petition stating their intentions.
“We’re not just coming out against the draft by publishing a Free Trojan like YAF—we’re actually laying ourselves on the line,” he said.
Saturday will be “Meet Your Draft Board Members” day. Since lists of addresses are public information, the students will travel to the members’ homes and discuss their opinions.
Simliar activities in Baltimore caused three board members to reassess their positions and resign, he said.
Korsen emphasized the friendly atli tude with which this activity will be carried out.
Koren said those wishing to join the Moratorium may leave their names and addresses in Room 102 of the Religious Center.